Why Should Parents Talk to Their Children in Their Native Language?

Source: Multilingual Living, By Ana Paula G. Mumy

As a speech-language pathologist and as a multilingual mother of bilingual children, I am finding myself shocked and confused at the number of parents I run into who have chosen not to speak their native language to their children for various reasons or who have been persuaded to believe that speaking their native language to their children will hurt them socially or academically if the primary language of the community is different. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>